A trip to Newcastle!

Last week I spent a couple of days in Newcastle, which was a welcome break from picture perfect Edinburgh! I visited the Angel of the North in Gateshead, which i have to say I thought would be bigger, but still very impressive!




I saw this peeling stencil poster down by the river, posted on a wall down a dark little alley.



The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary art had a really interesting exhibition on by Sarah Sze, an artist originally from Boston. Her exhibition was a world of found objects called Tilting Planet.

http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/present/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=124



I love the way it looks like a tiny civilisation and a huge blank space can be taken over by groups of tiny sculptures. The whole exhibition reminded me of my art foundation course where we had four connected studios and began making interactive sculptures in each space using only one colour. Over a week we developed these sculptures and spread into the other spaces mixing the colours and creating our own world of ephemeral madness! Sarah Sze's exhibition inspired my to make some three dimensional work which i hope to begin soon.

Arthur rather likes dogs...

WOOF!

Collograph 18cm x 12.5cm

Phillip.

Collograph 9.5cm x 12cm

Crackin' jumper pal.

Collograph Print, 9.5cm x 12cm.

Illustration for 'The Arrival'

The Arrival

by Jonathan Shupe

I see you standing there
waiting for your love
In the breeze you look so fair
like the sun so high above

In your eyes, too strong to weep
to see nothing’s arrived
In your heart your tears did seep
from emotion that you’ve thrived

Of your pain met the covered sky
as rain, began to fall from sleep
There you gave your final sigh
Then for you, nature did weep

With your back to the clouds,
you started your walk
and followed your lonely road
As your foot hit the ground, you started to talk
to the person that never showed

Every word you pressed to speak
to you he did not reply
Again of him your ears do seek
no sound to hear, but a cry
to you that is so near
Can only be so far away, so far away as the sky

Edinburgh Resident/Tourist